It has slowly been dawning on me that baking a good blueberry muffin is an exercise in restraint. While I battle with my instinct to tip just a little bit more of those juicy, scrumptious blueberries into my muffin batter, I have to constantly remind myself that blueberries have a high liquid content and adding…
Tag: Baking
Cherry Cornmeal Quick Bread
I have a single cherry tree in my backyard that produces bright red, tart cherries for about one week each year. I love tart cherries. Even though the yield is low and pitting cherries can be a lot of work, I anticipate that one week of the summer when the cherries are ready to be…
Tart Lemon Bars
I love lemon bars, but I rarely make them. Baking lemon bars tends to fall into that baking category of slightly more time consuming and a little bit more work. Squeezing lemons is also not the most enjoyable of baking tasks, but it is great for discovering small paper cuts and there is always that…
A. L. Graham’s
A salted butterscotch oatmeal cookie that I created for a dear friend’s bridal shower. Into its creation went a splash of bourbon and a sprinkle of pecans to harken back to Ashley’s southern roots, oatmeal since medical school has injected (pun intended) Ashley with the importance of good nutrition, and plenty of sugar and butter…
The Ephemeral Bee 